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When the Patriarch stopped at Amalon that spring, at the house of Joel Rae, there were many blessings to be made, and from morning until night for several days he was busy with the writing of them.
Since the conquest of Egypt by Omar, for a period of about twenty-four years, the patriarchate had been in the hands of the Jacobites; all the bishops in Egypt belonged to that sect, and they had established Jacobite bishops even in Nubia, which they had converted to their religion. The orthodox Christians elected Kosmas as their patriarch.
John Maron, one of the most learned and popular of the monks, assumed the character of patriarch of Antioch; his nephew, Abraham, at the head of the Maronites, defended their civil and religious freedom against the tyrants of the East.
When he saw Gordon and his party he stopped tying his shoes and laughed. "Well, partner, you look like a patriarch who's lost his way. Ain't none of your family got shoes?" He looked at Gordon's bleeding feet and at Kate and Ruth shivering behind him in the rain. Gordon smiled and shook his head.
Most of all when, breaking through all the regulations which the Nicene Council had consecrated by its approval, which, however, it had not created, but found in immemorial subsistence, he ventured to ordain at Constantinople a patriarch of Antioch.
The ill-feeling which the Patriarch fostered against the Mukaukas had been aggravated to hostility by their antagonism on this matter. A musical dirge now fell on Paula's ear from the convent chapel. Was the worthy Mother Superior dead?
They were close together, and it was very dark but was it dark enough to hide the crimson that she felt sweeping in a flood to her face! What was in that letter? Had Mrs. Thornton written as she had talked, or only about the Patriarch and the work in Needley? She had forgotten for the moment about the letter if there were more in it than that, if it were about Thornton and herself and what Mrs.
Noah, however, having provided for his three sons, looked in all probability upon our country as mere wild unsettled land, and said nothing about it; and to this unpardonable taciturnity of the patriarch may we ascribe the misfortune that America did not come into the world as early as the other quarters of the globe.
The holy Patriarch went then to Rome, where he found Cardinal Ugolino, who was returned from Tuscany, to whom he communicated the intention he had of soliciting the pope for a protector. The cardinal at the same time expressed his wish to hear him preach before the pope and the sacred college.
There was one fine old white-bearded patriarch stuck to his gun to the last. His people were all speared and cut down, but he never gave back an inch. I can see him now, looking like the pictures of Abraham in my old Sunday-school book. I thought I'd save him if I could.
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